Our research activitiesare positioned at the interface of supramolecular chemistry, dynamic covalent chemistry and the synthesis of functional materials. One central goal of our group is to study complex chemical networks at equilibrium and beyond (systems chemistry). We are also active in the field of functional organic materials and synthetic carbon allotropes, where we seek to apply the synthesized compounds in new-generation solar cells and photocatalysis.

Coworkersin the Delius group will be trained in all aspects of synthetic organic chemistry (synthesis, purification, literature research), supramolecular chemistry (screenings, titrations, crystallisation), as well as analytical chemistry (NMR, MS, HPLC, LCMS, GC). Our research on systems chemistry will contribute to a better understanding of highly complex systems in nature and we are working towards practical applications in molecular sensing and organic electronics.

News

24/07/2018:

We are delighted to announce that our lab has been awarded with a € 1.5 million ERC starting grant for the project "SUPRANET": Supramolecular Recognition in Dynamic Covalent Networks at Equilibrium and Beyond. Amazing opportunity to do frontier research over the next five years! Click here for the German or English press release.

16/07/2018:

Rafael Da Silva Rodrigues from QUT (Brisbane, Australia) joins our group as a visiting PhD student for a period of 6 weeks. Welcome!

03/07/2018:

Congrats to Youzhi Xu and Michael Bothe on the acceptance of their paper on the synthesis, supramolecular chemistry and photophysics (with Dirk Guldi) of modular fullerene/[10]CPP/porphyrine architectures!

02/07/2018:

A warm welcome to three new group members: Medina Jasarevic and Selina Hollstein join the group for their MSc theses and Zhong Hui Lim who joins the group from Oxford University for a three-month DAAD RISE internship.

09/06/2018:

Congrats to Youzhi Xu on winning the "Journal of Materials Chemistry C" Poster Prize at the 2nd From Carbon-Rich Molecules to Carbon-Based Materials Conference (Nassau, Bahamas).

17/05/2018:

We received excellent news today: the DFG has decided to fund the Ulm/Jena-based collaborative research centre TRR234 "CataLight", in which we contribute subproject B7 together with Prof. Andrey Turchanin (immobilization and dynamic covalent repair of HER catalysts on carbon nanomembranes).

February 2018: Krishnamurthy and coworkers report that diamidophosphate (DAP) could possibly have been an important "ingredient" of prebiotic chemistry, enabling the phosphorylation of a wide variety of (pre)biological building blocks (nucleosides/tides, amino acids and lipid precursors) and their (self)assembly into higher order structures.